Well, that has given me a heap to think about!?:|

Catspjs, I take your point but I don't think yours are OTT "busy". My idea of busy is miles long with yards of breathless text and flashing lights and animated seahorses and scrolling galleries and God help me-music. This is a look I intend to avoid, it must be hell for people on slow connections.

Phorum, I don't know if I could use Turbo Lister, since I use a Mac.

I had a look at Auctiva: I gather that one is Mac compliant and some of the free templates I looked at seem to embed within Auctiva- layers of complexity and I am not up to speed on the tech side, maybe later.

And then if the trend identified by kazbar continues and increases, being basic may be an advantage anyhow.

A lot of the iphone listings are very short on detail, and I wonder if they generate heaps of issues after the parcel arrives? NSD would be hard to establish in the almost total absence of description-perhaps they're onto something!:^O

Most of the effort I make is in the photographs and photo editing, I try to write a good description and mention any flaws I see in the hope that my buyers won't get nasty surprises,but I haven't tried to pretty up the page so far.

Thank you all very much for the gift of your time.:-x